(17) Despite losing in the final, Boyle has been tipped to make millions from a singing career and bookies are already predicting a number one chart hit in America.(16) A victory for AV would be a boost and the more so for now being regarded by bookies and pollsters as a remote possibility.(15) With minor parties, from Greens to the BNP, doing their disruptive best, the bookies too are hedging their odds.(14) Presenters kept shouting that Ed was now the bookies' favourite.(13) Kennedy described the new role, which hasn’t yet been cast, as “probably in the high teens, low 20s”, which should have the bookies scrambling to lower the odds on Breaking Bad’s 34-year-old Aaron Paul getting the role.(12) The bookies have not waited for the announcement of the results of the ballot and have already paid out.(11) It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham, the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have “lasted for ever”.(10) Odds 20-1 Social media’s favourite, and the bookies’ outsider.(9) Miliband said a number of councils had passed motions to ban bookies from the high street.(8) Lincoln is currently the bookies' favourite to win the best picture nomination.(7) Another Tour win, and hopefully people will see him differently, but mine and the bookies' money are not on our Kenyan-born Brit.(6) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.(5) He even put money on a Tory victory at the bookies.(4) The 44-year-old performer was the bookies' favourite to claim the Oscar, despite a recent repeat of accusations that director Allen had abused his infant daughter, Dylan.(3) That’s not a prediction, just the price that was available at my local bookies this morning.
(2) 2.41am BST Spurs 25-27 Heat - end of the 1st quarter Email from Roger Kirkby: And here we are, game six, TV happy, bookies happy, game on.(1) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie.".